If this was an Australian Board it would be who was better Schofield or Hanley, Edwards would be who????????????

There's no contest. Schofield was good but really not fit to lace Edwards' boots.

In any case, the outcome of this is quite obvious. St Helens and Leeds fans will think Schofield was the best. Everyone else will say Edwards.

I'm a proud Wigan lad (well 41 year old lad!!) with a picture of Central Park on my office wall but I think the answer to this question is Schofield by a considerable distance

Edwards was a team player whereas Schofield would often only play for himself or his clique. I believe Leeds were held back by his lack of professionalism whereas Edwards was ultra professional. Going on their skills I'd say Schofield at his best was a better player than Edwards at his best but if I was building a team I wouldn't have Schofield near it.

I would agree with you on that.

Nail/Head!

Schofield was the better player - genuinely world class and naturally talented as evidenced by his performances at both international level and in Australia for Balmain and Wests. That's the true acid test of a players greatness. Didn't achieve as much as he should have done domestically due to his own ego, lack of professionalism on occasions and playing for the wrong club at the wrong time.

Edwards wasn't a world class player as evidenced by his performances at international level and in Australia for Balmain. Fantastic team player and leader who made the very best of his lack of natural talent through sheer hard work and professionalism. Made his name domestically in a great, full-time professional team environment but the vast majority of those games were of a flat-track bullying nature.

Alluding to what others have said, a great team requires several Edwards-type team players among it's ranks but not so many of the individualistic Schofield-types.

What a stupid debate.

Schofield by a distance.

The irony of this is that the same people who are saying Schofield is better than Edwards are the same type of people who say Tomkins is too greedy and they would rather have a Sinfield type player in their team.

p.s Edwards by a distance, and my father (a saints fan) laughed when he saw this and said no contest, Edwards.

I do hope the Leeds fans enjoyed the Schofield years as much as I enjoyed the Edwards years.

That's utter gash, I can't stand Tomkins and his attitude/antics, maybe he does hold onto the ball too long at times but I wouldn't say he was greedy at all. If he thinks he can do stuff that doesn't need his team mates at any given point or they can't interpret how he is going to play in broken field play that's niether here nor there with his level of ability.

I'm sure your father is a lovely fella but he knows knack all about the relative qualities of the players mentioned here in terms of absolute skill/talent level if he thinks Edwards was better so your anecdotal evidence is futile...

Must be all those tries Edwards scored against Australia which convinced him, eh?